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Is the U.S. Tax Code Anti-Feminist?

Tara Siegel Bernard The New York Times
The tax code often assumes that economic resources within a household are shared equally and that caregiving has no independent economic value. Both assumptions obscure the realities of inequality and disproportionately disadvantage women.

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America’s Newest Doctors Fuel Efforts To Unionize

Tina Reed Axios
A new generation of doctors struggling with ever-increasing workloads and crushing student debt is helping drive unionization efforts in a profession that historically hasn't organized.

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Who Cares?

Sarah Jaffe The Baffler
Before Covid-19, American women were already in crisis

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The Mandalorian Doesn’t Care About Diapers

Kathryn VanArendonk New York Magazine
The Mandalorian is uninterested in diapers, and so Mando gets to be a very particular image of fatherhood: the guy who doesn’t have to sweat the small stuff. It’s wish fulfillment, a fantasy of parenting stripped of all detail and specificity.
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